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Venablesia colluvium

Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptinidae

Taxonomy
Venablesia colluvium was named by Britton (1960). Its type specimen is BMNH In.49102, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bognor Regis beach, which is in a Ypresian marine claystone in the London Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Venablesia colluvium Britton p. 32 figs. Pl 2, figs 1-3
2014Venablesia colluvium Zahradník and Háva p. 325
2015Venablesia colluvium Bukejs and Alekseev p. 560

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderBostrichiformiaForbes 1926
superfamilyBostrichoidea
familyPtinidae()
subfamilyDorcatominaeThomson 1859
genusVenablesia
speciescolluvium

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Venablesia colluvium Britton 1960
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 48.07000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 48.07United Kingdom (England) Venablesia colluvium (type locality: 126591)